PERRY’S FUTURE
! TO LIVE IN AUSTRALIA But Still Play for Britain BUSINESS APPOINTMENT <by Telegraph—l’resa Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 22, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, Juno 21. It is officially announced that F. J. Perry, the British tennis star, is joining Slazenger’a (Australia) Ltd. It is announced that Perry will live in Australia, with headquarters in Sydney. Perry has stipulated that he should he allowed to represent Britain in the Davis Cup. This has been agreed to. Perry, confirming the report, said, “I nm glad to bo able to fix it up. There are many rumours, including one that I was married yesterday. I am not married, and that’s that. I am going to Australia because money is worth 25 per cent, more there than in Engle ml. The contract means I shan’t, jus’ 1 e a tennis player, but a business man. ’ ’ The period of the contract will, it is | ’ "stood, be at least five years. | The secretary of the Tennis Assoeia- ; lion said the appointment docs not af'■t Perry’s amateur status.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 160, 22 June 1935, Page 5
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